Why Southeast Asia Is Relatively Spared by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the planet with the global death toll now close to 300,000. But the deaths seem to be concentrated...
Vietnam Should Be ASEAN’s First Among Equals
As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) faces renewed scrutiny in light of its comparatively weak response to the coronavirus crisis, the perennial...
Coronavirus Testing Is the Way to Avoid European-Style Confinement
South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong, all in the immediate vicinity of China, have, so far, been able to avert the mass spread of...
Taiwan Shows Rapid Response to Coronavirus As Hun Sen Plays Politics
There is probably not a national leader anywhere in the world who thinks his country’s people are stupid enough to believe that coronavirus spares...
India’s Morally Ambiguous Policy in Myanmar Faces Little Pay Off
India’s influence in Myanmar pales in comparison to China’s economic and strategic relations with the country even after compromising ethics. Although India’s policy towards...
Why Cambodia’s Hun Sen Can Never Plan for the Future Like Rwanda’s Kagame
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen argues that the international community is unfair in singling out his regime for its record on human rights and...
Thai Student Protests Bring Hope—and Fear
Last Friday’s Constitutional Court verdict saw the dissolution of the second largest opposition party in Thailand, the Future Forward Party. The Thai Court dissolved...
Dissolution of Thai opposition party a troubling, yet predictable development
A few days ago, Thailand’s Constitutional Court dissolved the opposition Future Forward Party on grounds it took an illegal loan from its leader, the...
Cambodia Is the Weakest Link in Global Fight Against Coronavirus
Early in 1984, the Vietnamese authorities who had occupied Cambodia since the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1979 decided that a wall had...